Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Forsythe's Hill
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: ca. 1918
Dimensions:
32 × 36 in. (81.3 × 91.4 cm)
Private collection
Accession number: SUPP2000.1210
Research Number: NCW: 1210
InscribedUpper left: N. C. WYETH; on reverse, label of Hardcastle Art and Gift Shop, Wilmington, DE
ProvenanceThe artist; descended in family, to 2012; (New York, NY, Christie's, Nov. 28, 2012, lot no. 111)
Exhibition HistoryWest Chester, PA, 1923
References
"Art Reception at Normal School," (West Chester, PA) Daily Local News, Nov. 13, 1923, p. 6; Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), L.127, p. 740
Curatorial RemarksThis painting is considered preliminary to NCW 1364 and is dated accordingly; NCW 533 is another view of the same hill from a different vantage.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:transparency directly from painting
Photo Credit:Rick Echelmeyer, 9/2003